Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-06-11
in Winter makes the milk taste bad
CULTIvAT1NG CORN

CULTlFATING CORN.
There are conditions of the ground
which make the double diamond better
for the early cultivation of corn than
either the harrow or the cultivators.
When the Spring is what we term ''back-
ward, = the weather being distinguished
by rains, accompanied by low tempera-
ture the ground becomes cold and wet;
thent the soil should be thrownaway from
the corn, leaving ridges to dry quickly
and warm up in the sun. The plows
may be run very close to the corn; I set
them just six inches apart. AS soon as
the ridges are dry, especially if the
weather promises to be less rainy, the
burrows should be closed and the ridges
cut down with the cultivators or harrow,
if the size of the corn will permit.
am believer in level, rather shallow
culture for corn, have been converted
from the ridge theory by several
years of experimenting. 1 am as decid-
edly Of opinion that often ridge culture
is the better, as I have pointed out. Our
practices must vary with conditions.
This applies with special force to the
cultivation of corn, for duringits season
the weather is so changeable that the
conditions are not often the same six day
in succession. What is proper cultivation
one day may be wrong the next. When
a man,insists that either level culture
or ridged culture is right uuder all con-
ditions you may be sure that his preju-
dices reduce his corn crop.
CURRENT NOTES.
Not only does the linden tree produce
honey in great abundance, but its quail
ity is regarded by many as equal, if not
superior, to that yielded by white clio
yer. e''.t ~
When cow steps into the milk pail,
remarks al exchange, she also steps in
to the butter plate, and there is no get
ting around it.
Thin out instead of shortening in a
tree when you transplant it. It is a
mistake notion that it is the proper way
to cut off the ends of all the limbs.
{ One thing seems to have been quite
well dtmonstrated--that a larger guam
tity Of potatoes, as well as potatoes of a
better quality, can be raised with chemi-
cal fertilizers than with manure.
Of the newer hardy shrubs by drangia
paniculata grandifora is one of the fin
est. 1t is perfectly hardy, and produces
immense panicles of white flowers in
great profusion. It blooms in July or
5 August, and remains an object of beau
ty until cut down by frost.
The great improvement made by the
hybridizer in the gladiolus within the
past ten years are simply wonderful,
and a few bulbs from a good strain will
well repay little trouble with beauti-
fully shaded flowers. They last in bloom
q long time. /
Sponge cake-One teacup of powder
ed or fine white sugar, three eggs, one
fourth of a teaspoon of soda, one-half
teaspoon of cream tartar, one teacup
of flour; flavor with vanilla.
Water crosses Wash well, pick off
decayed leaves and leave in ice water
until you are ready to eat them. They
should then be shaken free of wet and
piled lightlyin a glass dish. Eat with
salt. They are a piquant appetizer on
sultry mornings and very whole
some.
Tulips are excellent for early spring
flowers. The bulbs must be planted the
previous fall and protected through the
winter by mulching of leaves or coarse
manure. The tulips in the various parks
are little backward this year. Some of
the earlier varieties will in bloom to-
day, but the larger proportion will not
be at their best for another week, when
they will be well worth travelling miles
to see.